A backplane includes multiple vertical insertion plates separately arranged from each other, and connectors connecting circuit boards and a circuit serving as signal wiring are disposed on the vertical insertion plates. Each connector is electronically connected to the circuit of the vertical insertion plate on which the connector is disposed, so that when the connector on the vertical insertion plate connects a switch board with a service board, the switch board and the service board can implement signal interconnection through the signal wiring of the vertical insertion plate. Due to the backplane of a three-dimensional structure, the processing difficulty of the backplane is greatly lowered, the cost is greatly reduced, thus solving the problem of excessively large number of layers and excessively large size, which is caused by large-scale backplane wiring.
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1. A backplane comprising: multiple vertical insertion plates arranged separately from each other; wherein the vertical insertion plates comprise multiple connectors disposed thereon for connecting circuit boards and circuits serving as signal wiring formed thereon; wherein the connectors are electronically connected to the circuits of the vertical insertion plates on which the connectors are disposed to provide a signal connection between switch boards and service boards when the connectors on the vertical insertion plates connect the switch boards with the service boards; wherein the connectors on the vertical insertion plates connect the switch boards and the service boards, connectors disposed on one or more vertical insertion plates are connected to the switch boards, and the vertical insertion plates and the connected switching boards are in an orthogonal state to each other; and the connectors on one vertical insertion plate are connected to the service boards to mechanically connect the vertical insertion plate and the service board together, and the vertical insertion plate is parallel with or coplanar to the connected service boards.
2. The backplane according to claim 1 , wherein the connectors on the vertical insertion plate for connecting the circuit boards comprise multiple connectors that are disposed at a side edge of a lateral side of each of the vertical insertion plates.
3. The backplane according to claim 1 , wherein the connectors on the vertical insertion plate for connecting the circuit boards comprise multiple connectors that are disposed at side edges of opposite lateral sides of the vertical insertion plates.
4. The backplane according to claim 3 , wherein the multiple connectors that are disposed at the side edges of the opposite lateral sides of the vertical insertion plates comprise connectors for connecting to the service boards at one side edge, and connectors for connecting to the switch boards at the other side edge.
5. The backplane according to claim 1 , wherein the multiple vertical insertion plates arranged separately from each other are disposed in parallel with each other, and wherein the multiple vertical insertion plates are fixedly connected through a fixing component.
6. The backplane according to claim 1 , further comprising: connecting plates; wherein the multiple vertical insertion plates arranged separately from each other are fixedly connected through the connecting plates; and wherein circuits for supplying power to the switch boards and/or the service boards and/or controlling signal transmission are formed on the connecting plates.
7. The backplane according to claim 6 , wherein the connectors connecting the service boards and/or the switch boards are disposed at a surface of the connecting plate, wherein the connectors are electronically connected to printed circuits formed on plate bodies of the connecting plates, wherein notches for allowing the connectors on the vertical insertion plates to pass through are defined in the plate bodies of the connecting plates, and wherein the connectors of each vertical insertion plate can pass through the notches to fix the multiple vertical insertion plates on the connecting plates.
8. The backplane according to claim 6 , wherein the connectors are disposed at two surfaces of each of the connecting plates, wherein the connectors on the two surfaces of each of the connecting plates are electronically connected through a circuit disposed on the plate body of each of the connecting plates, wherein a connector on one surface of each of the connecting plates is used to connect the service board and/or the switch board, and wherein a connector on the other surface of each of the connecting plates is configured to interconnect with the connector on each vertical insertion plate to fixedly connect the multiple vertical insertion plates to the connecting plate.
9. The backplane according to claim 7 , wherein the multiple vertical insertion plates arranged separately from each other are fixedly disposed between two of the connecting plates for connection.
10. The backplane according to claim 1 wherein each vertical insertion plate is a shaped plate with a recessed central part, wherein the connectors for connecting to the circuit board are respectively disposed at side edges of two ends of one side of the vertical insertion plate and a side edge of the recessed central part of the other side of the vertical insertion plate, wherein the connector for connecting to the service board is disposed at a side edge of two ends of one side of the vertical insertion plate, and wherein the connector for connecting to the switch board is disposed at a side edge of the recessed central part of the other side.
11. A communication device comprising: at least one switch board; at least one service board; at least one backplane; wherein the at least one switch board and the at least one service board are connected to the at least backplane and implement signal interconnection through the at least one backplane, wherein the at least one backplane comprises multiple vertical insertion plates arranged separately from each other; wherein the vertical insertion plates comprise multiple connectors disposed thereon for connecting circuit boards and circuits serving as signal wiring formed thereon; wherein the connectors are electronically connected to the circuits of the vertical insertion plates on which the connectors are disposed to provide a signal connection between the at least one switch board and the at least one service board when the connectors on the vertical insertion plates connect the at least one switch board with the at least one service board; wherein the connectors on the vertical insertion plates connect the switch boards and the service boards, connectors disposed on one or more vertical insertion plates are connected to the switch boards, and the vertical insertion plates and the connected switching boards are in an orthogonal state to each other; and the connectors on one vertical insertion plate are connected to the service boards to mechanically connect the vertical insertion plate and the service board together, and the vertical insertion plate is parallel with or coplanar to the connected service boards.
12. A communication device comprising: multiple communication devices in communication connection; wherein the communication devices comprise at least one switch board, at least one service board, and at least one backplane; wherein the at least one switch board and the at least one service board are connected to the at least one backplane and implement signal interconnection through the at least one backplane; wherein the at least one backplane comprises multiple vertical insertion plates arranged separately from each other; wherein the vertical insertion plates comprise multiple connectors disposed thereon for connecting circuit boards and circuits serving as signal wiring formed thereon; wherein the connectors are electronically connected to the circuits of the vertical insertion plates on which the connectors are disposed to provide a signal connection between the at least one switch board and the at least one service board when the connectors on the vertical insertion plates connect the at least one switch board with the at least one service board; wherein the connectors on the vertical insertion plates connect the switch boards and the service boards, connectors disposed on one or more vertical insertion plates are connected to the switch boards, and the vertical insertion plates and the connected switching boards are in an orthogonal state to each other; and the connectors on one vertical insertion plate are connected to the service boards to mechanically connect the vertical insertion plate and the service board together, and the vertical insertion plate is parallel with or coplanar to the connected service boards.
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December 20, 2012
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